Kolkata court extends PK Halder’s remand period by 11 days
A court in Kolkata today (May 27, 2022) extended the remand period of former NRB Global Bank MD Prashanta Kumar Halder in a money laundering case.
The court order came after the expiry of his ten-day remand when India's Enforcement Directorate (ED), which handles money laundering and foreign exchange violation cases, produced Halder before the court, reports our New Delhi correspondent citing sources at the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata.
Halder was brought to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act court and produced before it amidst tight security.
PK Halder, who fled Bangladesh in 2019, was arrested by the ED along with five other Bangladeshis from Ashok Nagar in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district following a request from the Bangladesh government.
In cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in Bangladesh, Halder is accused of swindling multiple non-banking financial institutions out of more than Tk 2,500 crore.
Halder was arrested on May 11, a day after the ED had carried out raids at eleven premises linked to Bangladesh nationals.
In the searches that the ED carried out at properties of Halder, many key documents, including land deeds, have been recovered.